How to convert dataURL to file object in javascript?

I need to convert a dataURL to a File object in Javascript in order to send it over using AJAX. Is it possible? If yes, please tell me how.

If you need to send it over ajax, then there's no need to use a File object, only Blob and FormData objects are needed.

As I sidenote, why don't you just send the base64 string to the server over ajax and convert it to binary server-side, using PHP's base64_decode for example? Anyway, the standard-compliant code from this answer works in Chrome 13 and WebKit nightlies:

function dataURItoBlob(dataURI) {
    // convert base64 to raw binary data held in a string
    // doesn't handle URLEncoded DataURIs - see SO answer #6850276 for code that does this
    var byteString = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);

    // separate out the mime component
    var mimeString = dataURI.split(',')[0].split(':')[1].split(';')[0];

    // write the bytes of the string to an ArrayBuffer
    var ab = new ArrayBuffer(byteString.length);
    var ia = new Uint8Array(ab);
    for (var i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
        ia[i] = byteString.charCodeAt(i);
    }

    //Old Code
    //write the ArrayBuffer to a blob, and you're done
    //var bb = new BlobBuilder();
    //bb.append(ab);
    //return bb.getBlob(mimeString);

    //New Code
    return new Blob([ab], {type: mimeString});


}

Then just append the blob to a new FormData object and post it to your server using ajax:

var blob = dataURItoBlob(someDataUrl);
var fd = new FormData(document.forms[0]);
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

fd.append("myFile", blob);
xhr.open('POST', '/', true);
xhr.send(fd);